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		f_salmon on Feb 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS > A user simply sends a message, and it’s encrypted end to end, every time. Anything that is not public key encrypted must be considered unencrypted.

garrettgrimsley on Feb 25, 2014 | [–]

TextSecure does use public key cryptography. It performs the key exchange silently, but it still performs it.

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/ProtocolV2 https://www.whispersystems.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting/

shabble on Feb 25, 2014 | [–]

Pff. A pair of exchanged 32GB microSD cards full of random data would give you OTPs for a hell of a lot of tweets/SMSes :)

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